Peng Wei Painting Installations at The Opposite House

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January – March 2010
The Opposite House Atrium, Sanlitun, Beijing

RedBox Studio is pleased to present two site-specific painting installations by Peng Wei at The Opposite House, Beijing. Recognized for her delicate ink color paintings on silk and paper, this showcase features her recent painting experiments with a third dimension. “Rock Garden” presents a series of Chinese scholars rocks painted on transparent panels, creating an ethereal garden of vestiges of a scholarly past. “Bodies” is a series of rice paper female forms adorned with refined images imbued with aesthetic sensitivity. Combining imagery of traditional literati painting with the modern forms and expressions of everyday life, her works reveal a playful expression of intimacy found within traditional Chinese culture. Peng Wei’s art both commemorates a bygone era of the scholarly tradition and represents the subtle elegance and refinement of contemporary culture.

Peng Wei (b. 1974, Chengdu) is a graduate of the East Asian Department at Nankai University, Tianjin. Her works have been exhibited widely between Paris, New York, Hong Kong and Beijing and are held in international private collections. She currently lives and works in Beijing.